David camherer



N.PETERS, PHOTO-LIYHOGRAFHER, WASHINGTON. D. C.

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Letters Patent No. 104,421, dcteztJunc 21,1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR .AG-ITATING- AND COOLING BARRELS AND CASKS DURING THE PROCESS OIE' PITCHING.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent `and making part of the same.

T 0 all whom it may concern: v

Be it known that I, `DAVID Chimenea, oiTCincinnati, in the countyot' Hamilton and State of Ohio,

` have inventeda new and improved Apparatus for Rolling and Cooling Barrels, Oasks, 85e.; and'I do hereby declare vthat the following is a' full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use. the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 represents a plan orV top view of my im- 'provedrolling and cooling apparatus.

Figure 2 is a frontelevation, partly in section, of the same.

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This invention has for its object to constructvan apparatus for agitating and cooling barrels and casks immediately after the inner sides of the same are covered fwit-h pitch or other water-proof composition. Heretofore, each barrel or cask, after having received the hot inner lining, had Yto be rolled on the oor or ground, so ,as to evenly spread the lining over the inner surface, and-the motion had to be kept up until the lining was coagulated. The waste of time and labor connected with this process was considerable, and out of-proportion with the result produced.

My invention consists, first, in providing an apparatus ou which a suitable number of barrels or casks can be simultaneously rolled or agitated for spreading the liquid lining. y My invention consists, also, in the application to au ,agitating or rolling apparatus, of a blower, for forcing old air into the several barrlswpr c jfs, and conse- A, in the drawing, represents a` frame of suitable size and) construction, made of wood or other material. In this frame are hunga suitable number .of

`horizontal or inclined shafts, B B, which are all, by

.the rod O, and cranks a.

The shafts B B serve as a rack uponwhich the barrels or casksI are placed after-having been or while being lined. l v

Y Each shaft B contains a suitable number of projecting pins, c c, which, while the shafts are turned, serve yto roll and thereby agitate the barrels or casks. Thus a suitable number of barrels or casks of suitable sizes can at once be properly rolled for spreading the lining.

Erepresents a fan, or vother suitable boring apparatus, attached to theframe A, or arranged near the same for forcing the air into a pipe, F, whence elastic tubes G Gare carried to the several barrels or easks.' The tubes G are, by means' of swivel-couplings H H, connected with the several barrels, as shown, so as not to be strained -by-nor interfere with the motion of the same. This swivel-coupling consists of" two short metallic tubes swiveled together, one being fxed` Vto the barrel, and.' the other to the tube G, as shown.

Similar swivel-couplings, H', may be used for connecting the tubes G with the pipe F.

Air is, by the fan or its equivalent, blown into each barrel or cask, for the purpose of hastening tl1c 'cool ing of the lining.

-Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new fand desire to secure b v Letters Patentl 1. The barrel-rolling apparatus, consisting of the connected shafts B B, which cont-ain ythe projecting pins c c, substantially as and for the purposeA herein sho'wurand described.

2. The combination of the air-blowing with the barl rel-rolling apparatus, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. The swivel-coupling H, arranged on the elasticy air-tubes G, and on the rolling barrels or casks, as set. 

